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Underwater sketching in the balmy blue sea

January 25, 2026
By Nina Khashchina

Last month, I got to do two of my favorite things at the same time: scuba-diving and sketching, during a weeklong trip to Bonaire Island. Bonaire is a Caribbean municipality of the Netherlands where you can fly directly from Houston, New York or Miami in the U.S., or Amsterdam in Europe. It is tiny, about […]

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  • Nina Khashchina has filled more than 150 sketchbooks over the years, documenting trips to the Maldives, Spain, Alaska, her native Ukraine and many other locations. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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